Blinken’s China vision vs American business and people

Against the hopes of moderate bipartisan voices, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s China vision builds on Trump’s unipolarity at the expense of American business and people. The AI and semiconductor debacles are an ominous prelude to the future.

ANNE O. Krueger, the World Bank’s former chief economist, has noted that, after four years of a modus operandi to bully China, Trump’s trade war is “a failure that harmed both China and the US.” Like Krueger, many progressive Democrats and global-minded Republicans hoped for a reset of US-China relations. That’s why they saw Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s foreign policy speech as a huge disappointment.